Historical Seismicity of the Rijeka Region (Northwest External Dinarides, Croatia)—Part II: The Klana Earthquakes of 1870

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 1524-1536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijan Herak ◽  
Mladen Živčić ◽  
Ivica Sović ◽  
Ina Cecić ◽  
Iva Dasović ◽  
...  
2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 904-915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davorka Herak ◽  
Ivica Sović ◽  
Ina Cecić ◽  
Mladen Živčić ◽  
Iva Dasović ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelhakim Ayadi ◽  
Farida Ousadou ◽  
Kahina Roumane ◽  
Assia Harbi ◽  
Said Maouche ◽  
...  

1991 ◽  
Vol 193 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 231-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Olivera ◽  
E. Banda ◽  
A. Roca

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Glass

Estimates of the probability of future earthquake activity are difficult to make in areas where historical seismicity may be low or absent, but where young fault scarps attest to recent or ongoing tectonism. Three non-Poisson models, a Weibull model, a Gaussian model and a lognormal model, are used to estimate the earthquake hazard for one such area, the northern Rio Grande Rift. This portion of the Rio Grande Rift displays numerous Holocene faults attesting to ongoing tectonism, but displays essentially no historical seismicity. The earthquake hazard for the Sangre de Cristo fault zone from Taos, New Mexico to Salida, Colorado calculated using these models is remarkably consistent (probability of at least one Mo = 7 earthquake in the next 50 years ∼ 2.5 × 10−3), with increased hazard for the Sangre de Cristo fault in north San Luis Valley (∼5.0×10−3) and near Taos (∼1.0×10−2) due to the long holding times along these segments.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josipa Majstorović ◽  
Piero Poli

<p>On April 6th 2009 (01:32 UTC) strong earthquake of magnitude M<sub>W</sub>6.1 occurred near the city of L’Aquila in the Abruzzo region in the Central Apennines of Italy. Due to the extensional processes the Abruzzo region is characterized by prominent historical seismicity. However, before the 2009 event the background seismic activity is characterised as sparse and mostly clustered in space and time. The general lack of events, especially small magnitude events before the 2009 event motivated us to study the long-term near-fault seismicity before the large earthquake occurrence. To achieve this we first have to extend the existing catalog. We take into consideration the data from the AQU (42.354, 13.405) station that has been recorded in the city of L’Aquila, near Paganica fault responsible for the 2009 event, during an extensive period of 29-years, 19 years before the event itself. The catalog extension is performed by applying the two-stage convolutional neural network pipeline for earthquake detection and characterisation (epicentral distance and magnitude) using three component signal station waveforms. The algorithm allows us to successfully detect ~800 local events (less than 10 km from the AQU station) in the period 1990-2009. We here present a detailed analysis of this catalog including waveforms characterization to derive new insights about the long term preparation processes(es) occuring before the 2009 M<sub>w</sub>6.1 earthquake.</p>


1994 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 1293-1309
Author(s):  
Steven N. Ward

Abstract A serious obstacle facing seismic hazard assessment in southern California has been the characterization of earthquake potential in areas far from known major faults where historical seismicity and paleoseismic data are sparse. This article attempts to fill the voids in earthquake statistics by generating “master model” maps of seismic hazard that blend information from geology, paleoseismology, space geodesy, observational seismology, and synthetic seismicity. The current model suggests that about 40% of the seismic moment release in southern California could occur in widely scattered areas away from the principal faults. As a result, over a 30-yr period, nearly all of the region from the Pacific Ocean to 50 km east of the San Andreas Fault has a greater than 50/50 chance of experiencing moderate shaking of 0.1 g or greater, and about a 1 in 20 chance of suffering levels exceeding 0.3 g. For most of the residents of southern California, thelion's share of hazard from moderate earthquake shaking over a 30-yr period derives from smaller, closer, more frequent earthquakes in the magnitude range (5 ≦ M ≦ 7) rather than from large San Andreas ruptures, whatever their likelihood.


Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minhee Choi ◽  
David W. Eaton ◽  
Eva Enkelmann

The Denali fault, a transcurrent fault system that extends from northwestern Canada across Alaska toward the Bering Sea, is partitioned into segments that exhibit variable levels of historical seismicity. A pair of earthquakes (M 6.2 and 6.3) on 1 May 2017, in proximity to the Eastern Denali fault (EDF), exhibited source mechanisms and stress conditions inconsistent with expectations for strike-slip fault activation. Precise relocation of ~1500 aftershocks revealed distinct fault strands that are oblique to the EDF. Calculated patterns of Coulomb stress show that the first earthquake likely triggered the second one. The EDF parallels the Fairweather transform, which separates the obliquely colliding Yakutat microplate from North America. In our model, inboard transfer of stress is deforming and shortening the mountainous region between the EDF and the Fairweather transform. This is supported by historical seismicity concentrated southwest of the EDF, suggesting that it now represents a structural boundary that controls regional deformation but is no longer an active fault.


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